All it takes is one tough winter, a day or two in the negative double digits, and certain people point to that and declaim that climate change/global warming isn't real. Such people don't understand the climate change process and confuse local weather with global warming. Or perhaps worse, they declaim that climate change has always occu…
All it takes is one tough winter, a day or two in the negative double digits, and certain people point to that and declaim that climate change/global warming isn't real. Such people don't understand the climate change process and confuse local weather with global warming. Or perhaps worse, they declaim that climate change has always occurred but it's not human-caused so there's nothing that can or should be done about it.
That we call our current climate change in progress "global warming" has been confusing, despite the term's accuracy. Yes, the globe is warming; the average temperature of all points on Earth, throughout the entire year, is definitely rising. This does not mean that every place is warmer at all times. What it really means is that there is *more energy* in the overall atmospheric and hydrospheric system that creates local weather patterns. More energy means the potential for more extremes in all directions, and less predictability. Hot and cold waves, drought and flood, storms of all kinds. The natural cycles of various regions (like El Niño, or the Indian Monsoon) will generally continue, but everything will seem to be supercharged.
All it takes is one tough winter, a day or two in the negative double digits, and certain people point to that and declaim that climate change/global warming isn't real. Such people don't understand the climate change process and confuse local weather with global warming. Or perhaps worse, they declaim that climate change has always occurred but it's not human-caused so there's nothing that can or should be done about it.
Global warming causes tough winters!
That we call our current climate change in progress "global warming" has been confusing, despite the term's accuracy. Yes, the globe is warming; the average temperature of all points on Earth, throughout the entire year, is definitely rising. This does not mean that every place is warmer at all times. What it really means is that there is *more energy* in the overall atmospheric and hydrospheric system that creates local weather patterns. More energy means the potential for more extremes in all directions, and less predictability. Hot and cold waves, drought and flood, storms of all kinds. The natural cycles of various regions (like El Niño, or the Indian Monsoon) will generally continue, but everything will seem to be supercharged.
Thanks for explaining how climate change effects winter also.